Category: Cyber Security News & Updates

Github, Telegram Bots, And Qr Codes Abused In New Wave Of Phishing Attacks Phishing attacks are increasingly leveraging GitHub infrastructure, Telegram bots, and QR codes to evade detection and deliver malware. A recent campaign targeting

Marriott Settles Over Data Breach That Exposed Millions Of Guests Marriott International has settled for $52 million with the FTC and U.S. states over data breaches affecting 344 million guests between 2014 and 2020. As

Zero-Day Alert: Three Critical Ivanti CSA Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited Ivanti has disclosed active exploitation of three critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-9379, CVE-2024-9380, CVE-2024-9381) in its Cloud Service Appliance (CSA), which allow authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL

Fraudsters Imprisoned For Scamming Apple Out Of 6,000 iPhones Two Chinese nationals, Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue, were sentenced to prison for a scam that involved exchanging over 6,000 counterfeit iPhones for authentic ones, exploiting

Lockbit Associates Arrested, Evil Corp Bigwig Outed Operation Cronos has led to the arrest of four key LockBit ransomware associates and uncovered significant ties between LockBit and Russia’s Evil Corp, notorious for banking Trojans like

DOJ Charges 3 Iranian Hackers In Political ‘Hack & Leak’ Campaign The U.S. Department of Justice has charged three Iranian hackers affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for conducting a politically motivated “hack-and-leak”

North Korea Hackers Linked To Breach of German Missile Manufacturer North Korean hackers linked to the Kimsuky APT have successfully breached Diehl Defence, a German missile manufacturer, using sophisticated phishing tactics that included fake job

New Mallox Ransomware Linux Variant Based On Leaked Kryptina Code Mallox ransomware affiliates have been using a modified version of the leaked Kryptina ransomware source code to target Linux systems, representing a shift from their

Tor Says It’s “Still Safe” Amid Reports Of Police Deanonymizing Users The Tor Project reassures users that their network remains secure despite recent reports of law enforcement using timing attacks to deanonymize users. While acknowledging

Australian Police Infiltrate Encrypted Messaging App Ghost And Arrest Dozens Australian police, in collaboration with a global taskforce, infiltrated the encrypted messaging app Ghost, used by organized crime groups for illegal activities such as drug